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After Office Hours with Jack Hartpence //Co-founder PowWater
February 23, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
After Office Hours with Jack Hartpence
While Sustainable access to safe drinking water is the foundation for quality of life on earth today, still water remains to be the world’s most pressing problem.
With access to safe drinking water communities can move to address secondary and tertiary quality of life indicators such as gender equality, economic opportunity, education, and health
According to UN Statistics, in 2020, 74 percent of the global population had access to safely managed drinking water services, up from 70 percent in 2015.
Still, two billion people live without safely managed drinking water services, including 1.2 billion people lacking even a basic level of service.
This has seen the demand for water rise owing to rapid population growth, urbanization, and increasing water needs from the agriculture, industry, and energy sectors.
Decades of misuse, poor management, over-extraction of groundwater, and contamination of freshwater supplies are some of the key contributors to the exacerbated water stress.
In addition, countries are facing growing challenges linked to degraded water-related ecosystems, water scarcity caused by climate change, underinvestment in water and sanitation, and insufficient cooperation on transboundary waters.
SDG 6 focuses on universal access to drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030, To achieve this the current rates of progress would need to increase fourfold.
Achieving these targets would save hundreds of people who die from diseases directly attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, and poor hygiene practices.
As shocking as the statistics look, one company is re-writing this story daily trying to close this gap by enabling access to clean water for people across East Africa and South Asia and through empowering the communities they serve.
In 2018, Jack Harpentence Co-founder and CEO of PowWater, co-founded PowWater, a public benefit corporation that builds transparent technology and makes impact investments to improve access to clean water.
So far Powwater has distributed over 17 million liters of water and its vision is to be the most trusted water supplier in Africa.
Powwater currently works in close partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has brought sustainable clean water to over 200,000 people across East Africa and South Asia.
In 2021, PowWater was inducted into the Business Call to Action, a UNDP consortium of the top 250 businesses in the world tackling the SDG’s.
As part of our monthly event series, #AfterOfficeHours, this month, we are privileged to have Jack Hartpence, CEO of Powwater host ours After Office Hours session.
PowWater is democratizing access to high-quality water through water quality testing and an integrated end-to-end platform for water vendors and customers. PowWater’s mission is to build the most reliable clean water delivery in Kenya and its vision is to be the most trusted water supplier in the world.
Come and listen in as he shares his story on how a personal experience triggered a sense of passion for a better world leading to the founding of Powwater: to provide as many people as possible with access to water, the foundation for quality of life on earth today.
Jack will also share with us what this means and how his journey with serendipity led him to water and Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus’, the pioneer of microfinance and social business, founder of Grameen Bank, and United Nations Board Member.
Jack is a recipient of Forbes 30under30 for social impact. Jack has given a TEDx talk titled “Compassion for a better world,” and has been featured as a panelist on Youth, Technology, and Social Entrepreneurship at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York.
You cannot miss this out.
Read more about the session here! RSVP your attendance and see you then!
When: Thurs, 23rd February Time: 5:00 PM Where: Nairobi Garage // Kilimani RSVP
About the Speaker
Jack Hartpence serves as Co-Founder and CEO of PowWater. After a near-death car accident in 2017, Jack recognized that the purpose of life is to help others and this world we call home.
This is why Jack started PowWater: to provide as many people as possible with access to water, the foundation for quality of life on earth today. In 2022, Jack was inducted into Forbes 30 under 30.
Jack has also been featured as a TEDx speaker, and as a panelist on Social Entrepreneurship at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Jack is a Stanford University Ambassador of Compassion.
“If PowWater succeeds at their mission they will be the most important company in Africa.” – Adam Draper, BoostVC
PowWater’s mission is to democratize access to water, and its vision is to be the most trusted water supplier in the world.
PowWater currently works in close partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has brought sustainable clean water to over 200,000 people across East Africa and South Asia.
In 2021, PowWater was inducted into the Business Call to Action, a UNDP consortium of the top 250 businesses in the world tackling the SDG’s.
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When: Thurs, 23rd February Time: 5:00 PM Where: Nairobi Garage // Kilimani RSVP
